Aristotle 's Rhetoric is the completion of the art blinds the history of rhetoric : It cannot see another perspective even when the story of the Sophists eternally returns , though it returns in different forms . The argument -- Rhetoric as the completion of the art -- starts with the belief that a theory of rhetoric moved from inadequacies , when humans had not yet achieved consciousness , to maturity epitomized by rational thinking . Aristotle confronts discourse as a productive art as well as...











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